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Yesterday we went into the local Verizon store to replae my wife's iPhone 6 and ended up getting new phones for both of us. I hadn't planned on replacing my iPhone 8 so I hadn't run a backup the day before. No big deal because my important stuff should have been synched via iCloud.
Everything went smoothly for her but of course my setup had to bork thing up. Earlier today I discovered that none of my messages from the old iPhone were on the new phone and it had been about 10 days since my last true backup so my backup wasn't current enough to be useful. I spent at least an hour looking for an easy way to reansfer messages from my Mac to the new phone. Suddenly it occurred to me to check my iCloud settings on the new phone. In the setup process that had been turned off and I had forgotten to turn it on. Switch the setting to on and within a minute or two the messages are on my new phone. The moral(s) if the story are as follows:
1. Always check the simple things first.
2. Only very recent versions of IOS push Messages conntent up to iCloud. I believe this was introduced sometime during IOS 11.
3. If you search for how to tranfer Messages from an iPhone to a Mac there's tons of stuff out there. If you would like to go from the Mac to the phone good luck finding info on that,
Everything went smoothly for her but of course my setup had to bork thing up. Earlier today I discovered that none of my messages from the old iPhone were on the new phone and it had been about 10 days since my last true backup so my backup wasn't current enough to be useful. I spent at least an hour looking for an easy way to reansfer messages from my Mac to the new phone. Suddenly it occurred to me to check my iCloud settings on the new phone. In the setup process that had been turned off and I had forgotten to turn it on. Switch the setting to on and within a minute or two the messages are on my new phone. The moral(s) if the story are as follows:
1. Always check the simple things first.
2. Only very recent versions of IOS push Messages conntent up to iCloud. I believe this was introduced sometime during IOS 11.
3. If you search for how to tranfer Messages from an iPhone to a Mac there's tons of stuff out there. If you would like to go from the Mac to the phone good luck finding info on that,
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